We are JK Aerotech - the home of foamies

What do you fly? Scale? Sport? 1/4 scale? Small electric? It really doesn't matter because no matter what we typically build and fly, most of us will eventually want to remove personal stress at some in our life and....

 get down to some serious fun!

Flying a "tape ball" - as we affectionately refer to them - can definitely deliver the fun and do it in a package that will fly very well indeed and will offer several major benefits over the traditional stick and covering airframes.

• Very easy to build
• Very quick assembly
• extremely durable and able to take lots of punishment
• Great customer support

Now, I can sit here and talk my products up and gush on and on about them just like 40 million other business owners hoping that you will take the bait and part with a few of your hard earned dollars. 

But....

I don't think that's the best way to promote our products. We fly everything we produce so we are already sold on the concept of high performance tape covered RC aircraft - tape balls --- if you will. 

So...

Rather than me trying to verbally twist your arm and convince you that you need this or that - instead, lets take a look at what our customers have to say about our kits. These are excerpts of unsolicited comments from JKA foamie flyers. Keep in mind our kits were originally designed for combat competition - so the very qualities that make them ideal for that make them perfect for flying of any type - even just for fun.

Let's see what they have to say.....

Hey,

I've finished your 1/12th Combat P-51. This is the first foamy that I have
ever built and I must admit I was hesitant at first. But after starting the
project I found it to be fun to work on.

Kung

I finished building my T-52 and what a great plane it is! I was a bit
concerned when I opened the kit and saw all that foam. Now I want all
my planes to be made of the stuff! I have flown it three times and
crashed it twice. Each crash required a small bit of work on the nose
and back into the air it went.....

.....Thanks for producing such a great kit. It is a great first plane and
building it was fun!

Rich

Our kits are easy enough to build that first time foamie builders should have no trouble putting one together in 8 to 12 hours. A "tape-ball" pro can build a combat plane in a couple evenings.  If you have ever built a standard balsa and covering type plane, you know that covering alone can easily take that much time.

But why foam? Tape covered foam can't possibly fly as well as balsa -- or can it? Read on -----

I must say that I love your designs!  I can build them very quickly, and they are super tough!  I had several jaw wrenching midair's at the NATS, and one massive midair at Waverly - and through all of those midair's - my planes lived to fly another day!  Several of the planes that I decommissioned were of the reinforced carbon fiber/kevlar/fiberglass variants used by the top scale pilots in the U.S.   Awesome!

 Thanks for a great design! 

 Collin "Kraut" McGinnis

original "SPAD" designer 

Hi guys!
The Jug did very well in today's combat. Scored a cut and flew through a 
midair in the first round. Then, it flew out of being center-punched in the 
second round. The Jug was hit from below by a Sea Fury. The Sea 
Fury just shattered and went down. The Jug lost an aileron torque rod, has a 
prop gash in the fuselage and the right TE is smashed in (that was the 
Fury's spinner point of impact). I finished that whole round on 1 aileron 
with no problems. Didn't have quick enough roll rate to grab any streamers, 
but kept them away from my streamer long enough to bring home all 30' of it.

As far as performance, its strait-line speed was right up there with the 
competition and it could out-turn them too.

After the Jug took some damage, I went to the green Zero as back up. Had 
several more cuts and midairs with it through the 5th round to beat out Bob 
(2nd) and Dave (3rd). All in all, a great day to be a 
JKA warrior!

On a side note, the green Zero has now been through 7 midairs (2 opponents 
down for good, 1 severely damaged and 4 others mildly damaged). 

They need to come up with a stronger word than "tough" for these birds!

Darin Bellis

What I really like about the T-52 is that it is a great combination of "easy fly-ability" and "crash survivability." This was the only trainer I found that had *both* qualities, while still retaining the looks of a "real" airplane. That means I will have no problem recommending the T-52, anytime anyone asks, "What would be the best trainer for me?" Thank you VERY much! Mike

We have a ton more comments but I will finish up with just a couple more. If you want to read more of what our fellow foamie flyers say you can go to the Customer Comments page and hunt up the kit you are most interested in and most have pictures that have been sent in to us.

Again I ask the question - " what do YOU fly"? 

Because, no matter what it is from Top Gun scale, Turbine Jets, Fun Fly, Helicopters, or Park Flyers, we can guarantee more fun per buck than any other type of RC flying out there today. If you don't believe me

 listen to what Mike says ----

Hey guys! I may have written you before on this but Your P51 is JUST THE BEST!!!!!!! I have been building and flying planes for over 20 years and I cannot believe the fine flying characteristics of the planes you sell for so little money! ......... Can't tell you how much fun I am having! Sincerely yours,   Mike 

All you have to do is be willing to open your mind to new ways of doing things --- and you will be set free from the fear of crashing.

You will attempt flying in ways that you would never have dreamed of with an ARF, or scratch built kit that you put lots of your hard earned money and time into. 

Finally, Charlie pretty well sums up the foamie experience in pointing out the attitude change that comes over the typical foamie pilot. I have personally witnessed pilot skill levels increase exponentially after building and flying one of our foamies. 

This can only happen when you are free to fly without fear

Charlie brings up one last point worth noting:

The 2 Zeros were my first attempt at foamies. Also my first high speed models as I have only flown high wing trainers and slow biplanes. As far as the building went, I must say your website was the major selling factor of me trying the models. I was able to decided before hand on the issue of how hard they would be to build. It was great to be able to check the PC to see photos of the method......

......One of the big selling points so far besides how tough they are is the fact that we don't have to go to the flying field to fly.  We all have pastures or fields near our homes where the grass is to high to land our "Nice" models at but can crash (the foamies) into after a round of fun.  I've noticed an attitude change that comes over people when they fly these a few times concerning what is important.  If I were to flip my Stearman on it's back while landing I would tend to get a lot of cat calls.  Friday I got the comment "Great landing" after ending up with the nose stuck straight into the mud after I dead-stick punched through 2 trees to get to the runway . The only important thing now is the flight.  Of coarse the old guys at the field think us young kids (47) are nuts and still stick to their 4 Stars and fly in circles.

Charlie Pipes  

We at JK Aerotech try to make the building experience as painless as possible and the best way we have found is with our on-line step by step building instructions with full color pictures. 

This plane gives me a tool that will help me be better at it. A fine product

     at a reasonable price with incredible customer support, what more can you ask???

     Many Thanks.

     Bob

     Ontario, Canada

So give us a try and thanks to all our loyal customers for your continued support over the years. We do appreciate it!